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	Microsoft bashes VMware at VMworld, again In what has become an annual tradition, Microsoft celebrated the start of the VMworld show in Las Vegas this week with more satirical bashing of VMware. This year Microsoft launched a Web site called VMlimited in which it likens VMware to a guy who still thinks it's circa 1977. However, Microsoft's view point doesn't jive with the news of new partnerships and wares streaming out of the VMworld show... Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaseya How to Launch a Successful IT Automation Initiative In this paper, we'll look at IT automation from the corporation's perspective, and discuss the steps organizations should take before launching such an initiative. We'll hear from companies that successfully implemented computer automation platforms, what their early steps were and what they would do differently if they could repeat the process. Read now In this Issue Windows Servers & Workstations Vulnerable to Wicked Worm in the Wild Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications Survey: IT pros split on allowing end users to download, install software Apple locks in new CEO Tim Cook through 2021 Dell to launch public cloud service this year VMworld: Silver Peak offers WAN optimization for free Scala: The Android programming language you didn't know you had The iPad takes on manufacturing VertNet: The cloud gets some real backbones Browsing and Privacy: How to Not Get Tracked WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Windows Servers & Workstations Vulnerable to Wicked Worm in the Wild Like a blast from the past, there's a wicked worm spreading in the wild. Morto, the 'death' worm exploits weak passwords to hijack fully-patched Windows servers and workstations via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) . Once Morto discovers a Remote Desktop connection, it tries a list of weak passwords to login as Administrator. Then it attempts to terminates anti-virus and popular security-related programs.... Read More Cisco buys Microsoft Office collaboration company Cisco Monday announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications. Read More Irene takes out cell towers, disrupts communications Communications networks took a hit from Hurricane Irene with 1,400 cell towers and cell sites damaged or disrupted mainly in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday. Read More WHITE PAPER: Fujitsu New TPC-E Benchmark Results Revealed A "glue-less" design, where no additional hardware is necessary to run all eight CPUs and all memory slots enable the shortest route between processors, memory modules and I/O hubs inside a single chassis. It's just one of the many reasons Fujitsu servers are leading the way in TCP-E benchmarks and overall price/performance. Read now! Survey: IT pros split on allowing end users to download, install software In their efforts to keep malware off their networks, some IT and security pros restrict end users' rights to install apps on company machines, and the majority restrict the individual applications that are allowed on the network, a survey says. Read More Apple locks in new CEO Tim Cook through 2021 Apple's board of directors last Friday moved to lock in new CEO Tim Cook through mid-2021 by awarding him 1 million shares of the company's stock. Read More Dell to launch public cloud service this year Dell will launch its first cloud infrastructure service later this year through a partnership with VMware, continuing its push to move beyond PCs and into higher-margin software and services. Read More WHITE PAPER: GFI Software Email Security in Small and Medium-sized Businesses No organization can afford to operate without an email security strategy. The risk landscape is constantly changing with new threats surfacing every day. This white paper looks at email security in small and medium businesses, the solutions available and what features SMBs cannot do without. Read now VMworld: Silver Peak offers WAN optimization for free At VMworld this week Silver Peak Systems is introducing a free version of its WAN optimization software for virtual environments as well as an upgrade to its flagship virtual WAN appliance designed for data centers. Read More Scala: The Android programming language you didn't know you had Statically typed Java language pushed as alternative to JRuby and Groovy for building mobile Android apps Read More The iPad takes on manufacturing First it won accolades as the next killer consumer device. Then it slipped into the backpacks and briefcases of white-collar information workers, and in some cases it's becoming a corporate-sanctioned alternative to the laptop. Read More VertNet: The cloud gets some real backbones The University of California at Berkeley is spearheading a major effort called VertNet to store and make publicly accessible via the cloud some 84.3 million records on vertebrates from around the world. According to a write-up of the project at UC Berkeley's website, such a database of records would have been useful in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill as scientists raced to gauge the impact on local... Read More Browsing and Privacy: How to Not Get Tracked All modern browsers have built-in tools and add-ons to protect users from having their Web behavior tracked. But regardless, some sites still find ways to track you. Here are tips for taking matters into your own hands. Read More
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